EZCORP, Inc. , a leading pawn store operator and provider of specialty consumer financial services, today announced results for its third fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2010.
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EZCORP reports EPS in-line, beats on revs; guides FY10 EPS in-line Reports Q3 (Jun) earnings of $0.40 per share, in-line with the Thomson Reuters consensus of $0.40; revenues rose 17.4% 2010 07 22 16:24
EZCORP Third Quarter Earnings Jump 39%PR NewswireAUSTIN, Texas, July 22AUSTIN, Texas, July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EZCORP, Inc. (Nasdaq: EZPW), a leading pawn store operator and provider of 2010 07 22 16:01
Webcast Alert: EZCORP Fiscal 2010 Third Quarter Earnings ReleasePR NewswireAUSTIN, Texas, July 12AUSTIN, Texas, July 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EZCORP, Inc. (Nasdaq: EZPW) announces the following 2010 07 19 16:30
Webcast Alert: EZCORP Fiscal 2010 Third Quarter Earnings ReleasePR NewswireAUSTIN, Texas, July 12AUSTIN, Texas, July 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EZCORP, Inc. (Nasdaq: EZPW) announces the following 2010 07 12 16:30
For the last year and three months I have written a weekly piece on industry rotation that is largely based on price momentum, and described in this old piece that I wrote: A Different Look at Industry Momentum. I have my doubts about that piece around turning points and in choppy markets. I stated as much in my later piece A Different Look at Industry Momentum — II. It seems that the momentum effect has been declining over...
Two weeks ago, I alerted readers to some very likely bad news coming out of Washington for payday lenders.The difficulties payday lenders will face once the CFPA opens its doors range from loan limits to unknown regulatory restrictions.At the time, I went through potential revenue hits each company would be likely to experience.
Having had more time to digest the regulatory specifics, and in watching the trading action of the past few days, I regret to inform readers that even more bearish developments are accruing.It’s a dangerous time to be holding these stocks.It pains to me to say it, though....
The market seems to have a problem with its short-term memory. Last week it was all depressed with most components dropping 2% or more on Friday, and the whole Financial Sector was down badly because of the concern about the Greek debt and the announcement of the possibility of an investigation to pursue criminal charges against Goldman Sachs (GS). But Monday, Wall Street woke up seemingly in a brand new world with all components UP about 1.5%.
The CFPA Bill, known as “financial reform,” is very likely to pass.Lenders of all varieties will have business models scrutinized once the CFPA gets up and running. You can bet that under the Obama Administration, subprime lenders from auto financiers to pawn shops to payday lenders will be shot on sight.This will be particularly true if Elizabeth Warren, an outspoken critic of “predatory lenders”, is named to run the agency.
Particularly vulnerable are Advance America (AEA), QC Holdings (QCCO), Dollar Financial...
I have begun conducting the following screen on a monthly basis. Early out-of-sample results have been positive, especially in a bullish environment like the current one. March's list is here, February's list is here and January's here. The screen looks for the following:
earnings growers still reasonably priced as judged by the PEG ratio
low debt
a history of high return on equity and investment, and
price momentum as gauged by the percentage the stock is trading to its 250 day high.
Times are hard for a large number of US consumers. And Ezcorp Inc. (EZPW) is betting that there is difficulty in Mexico, Canada, the UK and Australia as well. The company is a leader in the pawn shop / cash advance / payday loan market and is quickly expanding internationally....
I have begun conducting the following screen on a monthly basis. Early results have been positive, especially in a bullish environment like the current one. February's list is here and January's here. The screen looks for the following:
earnings growers still reasonably priced as judged by the PEG ratio
low debt
a history of high return on equity and investment, and
price momentum as gauged by the percentage the stock is trading to its 250 day high.
January's list returned 1.39% vs .57% for SPY. February's list...
If this is your first time reading one of my breakout reports you'll want to read the section below, however if you are familiar with my daily breakout report you should skip ahead to the list of stocks.
To reiterate previous blog posts like this, the first thing I do is scan the list for familiar names, such as stocks I am quite familiar with or ones which have appeared on similar scans multiple times in the past week or two (most of these names are unfamiliar so it saves a lot of time). This indicates there may...
Stocks discussed on the lightning roundsession of Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV Program, Thursday March 11.
Bullish Calls:
Ford (F), Ford Preferred (F-PS): "We may have a $12.5m auto buildout in this country… do you know what that means for Ford? It means sales are really exploding…I want to buy Ford, I want to buy ...
Binya Appelbaum has the latest news on the shape of the consumer financial protection legislation which is likely to come out of the Senate:
Payday lenders, pawnbrokers, car dealers and other companies that make loans but do not hold bank charters would be shielded from the scrutiny of a proposed federal consumer protection regulator under the terms of a tentative compromise between senators who are attempting to craft a bipartisan bill.
By Chip Brian Below are the top five companies in the Consumer Finance industry as measured by lowest relative performance. This analysis was based on yesterday's trading activity as we search for ...
A bottom-fisher is all cashed up with somewhere to go - but is the EZCorp deal merely a case of preaching to the converted? PAWNBROKING chain Cash Converters International, which has built its ...
NEW YORK (Market Intellisearch) -- EZPW options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 25 put and 1,732 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put ...
By Chip Brian Ezcorp (NASDAQ:EZPW) is currently trading 32.4% above its Sept. 15th 2008 low of $15.35. Investors are looking to see if this Sept. 15th 'Lehman Crisis' low can act as support ...
By Chip Brian Below are the top five companies in the Consumer Finance industry as measured by relative performance. This analysis was compiled based on yesterday's trading activity as we search ...
Below are the top 10 Consumer Finance stocks with highest upside potential, based on the difference between current price and Wall Street analysts' average target price. Advance America, Cash ...
By Chip Brian Below are the top five companies in the Consumer Finance industry as measured by lowest relative performance. This analysis was based on yesterday's trading activity as we search for ...
GM is planning to file for an IPO during the week of Aug. 16, according a Reuters report. The sources indicate that GM wants to complete the IPO before the US mid-term elections in November. On ...
Analysts were expecting EZCORP Inc. (EZPW) [Chart - Analysis - News] earnings to come in at $0.40 per share for last quarter, and EZPW met expectations with actual earnings of $0.40---in line with ...
AUSTIN, Texas, July 22, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- EZCORP, Inc. (NASDAQ:EZPW) , a leading pawn store operator and provider of specialty consumer financial services, today announced results ...
